The Advisor Suite leverages patented expert system technology that enables the timely delivery of advice and guidance for software endeavors. It provides credible explanations as to why certain practices work in various contexts, and supports effective change through incremental adoption of practices in a culturally sensitive manner. "Advisor" realizes the IT industry's first Lean and Agile Transformation Infrastructure for achieving successful change at the scale of the enterprise. It also represents the industry's first Lean and Agile Governance solution that is ALM-vendor agnostic, enabling efficient and effective self-organization and empiricism at enterprise scale while lowering the total cost of transformation.

Provides the facility to empower teams to exercise responsible autonomy. Embrace the diversity that
exists at scale and contextualize value streams across the breadth
of the enterprise.

Pragmatically
enables dynamic, hybrid compositions of modern
software development practices, leveraging all prior
codified experience agnostic of whether it came from
Agile, Lean or Unified Process lineages.

Effectively
a "Coach-in-a-box ™ ", expert-level
advice and guidance is delivered just-in-time to
practitioners and coaches regarding the implications
of their software development practice choices based
on the culture and context, and System's Thinking
analysis.

Rapid
assembly of approaches based on standard named
approaches like Scrum, XP, HyperAgility, Lean Startup
and hybrids of Scaled Agile approaches through reusable approach templates.

Capture
of contextual, cultural and approach declaration
data such that risk exposure patterns are easily
discernable. Our expert system technology technology and rule-base can
be extended or tailored to reflect specific nuances of your enterprise.

Lean Staffing:

Requisition generation based on the practice and division-of-labor choices
within a declared approach. Go beyond myopic, 2-day certifications by truly understanding
the essential skills required to execute against an software development approach.

JIT Requisitions for talent marketplace auctions. Pull new personnel into your organization
in an elastic manner.

Collection of experience and learning metrics for future staffing decisions. Empirically
understand the efficacy of staffing decisions to project results.

Tracking of personnel growth and identification of candidate internal coaches. Enable projections
of skills growth and effects on organizational capability as experience is earned.

Organizational Playbooks:

Complexity reduction through visualization for professional teams who need
a common playbook from which to execute software
endeavors, and who understand the need for understanding
workflow in a non-prescriptive manner so everyone is on
the same page. Provides a one-stop-shop for practices reference and knowledge transfer.

Integration
of industry experts who contribute their integration
of knowledge and experience to provide unbiased
advice guidance which reduces the noise and brings
clarity to the sea of Process-ware, Method-ware,
Blog-ware and Slide-ware.

Just-in-time access
to various stages of knowledge transfer, including
pay-per-view training requests on a per-practice basis
and pull-oriented requests for coaching, thereby lowering
the total cost-of-transformation to modern practice.

Smart
Retrospectives ™ , the first approach to
organizational learning to go beyond superficial,
anecdotal, and after-the-fact learning currently available
within modern software development communities
focused on Agile, the PMBOK, COBIT, CMMI, ITIL, Lean, EA, etc.

Correlation of decisions to outcomes, including tracking learning investments, refactorings
and interventions and their effects on endeavour success and failure.

In-flight
course-corrections through the recompilation of a
teams playbook dynamically as a result of approach
refactoring.

True openness and transparency by bringing visibility into patterns
of success and areas for improvement so that opportunities for
reuse of successful strategies can be undertaken in a timely manner,
and failing or risky tactices can be avoided proactively across the enterprise.

Lean Governance and Empiricism @ Scale:

Decision-centric Capability Improvement (DCCI), the industries first strategy that focuses
improvement on the decision levers and associated risk mitigation rather than command and control of activities and tasks for effective
steerage at the scale of the enterprise.

Cultural nudge monitoring to track the effects of leveraging choice architecture on
the evolution of the value structure of the organization.

Delivery
Intelligence to provide pragmatic visualization of
the project and portfolio status, including efficiency and effectiveness, normalized velocity,
staffing drill-down, comparitive portfolio analysis and real-time risk assessment. Removes the blindspots that are common at enterprise scale.

Approach
Intelligence and real-time compliance and maturity assessments to remove the mystery of
leading industry frameworks, avoiding distractions yet providing the necessary views to various
enterprise stakeholders. Delivers pragmatic visualization of
the efficacy of software development practice at a project, organization and industry
scope against live in-flight projects and on-the-ground delivery results.

Normalized Velocity to understand differences in teams capability in concert with
contextual differences. Moving average and trending can support spotting local optimizations
and teams that require the most help across the enterprise.

Policies and Standards to ensure that endeavors can quickly reuse templates proven successful in
context. Specific policies ensure that enterprise-wide practices that are mandated or socialized
are given proper consideration.

Lowered Total-Cost-of-Transformation:

Pull-based or "Lean" coaching. Rather than coaches pushing
themselves on teams, team members can request coaching cycles in
small increments from coaching affiliates assigned to an enterprise.

Virtual coaching through shared coaching chalkboards
and live video chats such that travel costs can be
kept in check for enterprise scope transformations.

Targeted assistance through portfolio comparison indicators
and coaching alerts to focus capability improvement dollars
where they will make the most difference.

eLearning assets continually being added, whether
they are SDE delivered through the platform, or home-grown. Readily
available with usage tracking and capability accounting.

Robust knowledge management strategies focused on capturing
contextual experience and and practice know-how rather than
re-inventing the wheel.